We Speak Linux – OpenSSH For Windows Pros

I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at this months We Speak Linux Webinar. Each month We Speak Linux brings cross platform training to the Windows world. Sign up now here! On Thursday, December 2 at 11:00 Central I’m presenting: OpenSSH for Windows Pros Here’s the abstract: In PowerShell Core we can use OpenSSH as the transport layer to carry our remoting sessions between our systems. In this session we’ll look at OpenSSH architecture, Authentication methods, including key authentication, sshd configuration, and troubleshooting methods when things go wrong!

Testing if a Port is Open With PowerShell

Ever want to confirm that a port is accessible from one computer to another? There’s a PowerShell cmdlet for that, Test-NetConnection. With the -Port option, this cmdlet will do a quick TCP three-way handshake on the remote system to confirm that the service is available and reports back if it succeeded or not. Check out that last line of output TcpTestSucceeded: False. That indicates that this port is not accessible. You can see, however, that the system is reachable via ICMP (Ping), PingSuceeded: True so we know that the remote system is alive, just not listening on the port we want to access.

My Current Training Courses on Pluralsight!

Here’s a run down of the Linux training that I have available on Pluralsight! Just getting started! Understanding and Using Essential Tools for Enterprise Linux 7 – If you heard what Linux is and want to get started this is the place to be. We’ll cover installation, command line basics, the file system, text editors and more! This is my most popular course. SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals – SQL Server is available for Linux and Docker!

SQL Server on Linux – External Memory Pressure with 2019 CTP2

In this blog post we’re going to revisit how SQL Server on Linux responds to external memory pressure. This is a very long post, and it ends with me not knowing exactly what’s going on…but the journey is pretty fun…let’s go! On Windows-based SQL Server systems we’ve become accustomed to the OS signaling to SQL Server that there’s a memory shortage. When signaled, SQL Server will kindly start shrinking it’s memory caches, including the buffer pool, to maintain overall system stability and usability.

Installing minikube on CentOS

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to install Minikube on CentOS. Minikube is a platform you can use to test kubernetes clusters on your local machine or in a virtual machine. Let’s start off with a fresh Install of CentoOS 7 on a virtual machine using a minimal install. If you need some help getting a Linux VM us, check out my Pluralsight course here to help you with that.

My Experiences Tech Editing Pro SQL Server on Linux

The Opportunity Earlier this year I received an email from Jonathan Gennick, an editor at Apress books. The subject of the email was “Tech edit a book” and he asked if I was familiar with SQL Server on Linux. I excitedly replied “yes…I think I’m your guy for this”. In 2017, I had the opportunity to tech edit another book on SQL Server on Linux and had to back out of that project and this was a fantastic second chance to still be able to work on a topic I really want to participate in and help move forward.

New Pluralsight Course – Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

My new course “Provisioning Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in check it out here! This course offers practical tips from my experiences building Azure Virtual Machines for Centino Systems clients. This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain Azure IaaS based solutions.The course can be used by both the IT pro learning new skills and the senior system administrator preparing for using IaaS Virtual Machine services in Microsoft Azure

I’m Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge!

Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge! I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Cambridge on September 8th 2018! And wow, 748 SQL Saturdays! This one won’t let you down. Check out the amazing schedule of International Experts and Microsoft MVPs! <p> If you don’t know what SQLSaturday is, it’s a whole day of free SQL Server training available to you at no cost! </p> <p> If you haven’t been to a SQLSaturday, what are you waiting for!

Questions from PASS Marathon Containers

Thanks to everyone who attended the PASS Marathon Containers edition and to PASS for the opportunity to present. I received the Questions from the session and wanted to provide answers to the attendees and the community. If you want to see the session again, check it out on YouTube. The decks are available online at http://www.centinosystems.com/blog/talks/ Here’s the list of questions from the session and my answers. What do you mean it is not for production environment in Windows?

Speaking at SQLSaturday Sacramento – 757!

Speaking at SQLSaturday Sacramento! I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Sacramento on July 28th 2018! And wow, 757 SQL Saturdays! This one won’t let you down. Check out the amazing schedule! <p> If you don’t know what SQLSaturday is, it’s a whole day of free SQL Server training available to you at no cost! </p> <p> If you haven’t been to a SQLSaturday, what are you waiting for!